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Can you get rid of genital herpes by diet or medication? |
Can you get rid of genital herpes by diet or medication? FINDING A TREATMENT THAT WILL WORK BEST FOR YOU. Genital herpes is manageable. Over the years, a number of treatments offering effective relief from symptoms of genital herpes and cold sores have been developed (see list below). According to a survey conducted by the American Social Health Association in 1991, most patients with Herpes try between two and five different therapies. These include: Prescription drugs OTC "cold sore" treatments, Herbal remedies Vitamins Nutritional changes Psychotherapy No. You control the symptoms with medication. Ask your local health department or your doctor. no once u get it ur stuck wit it Thus far, no. A herpes infection is the inhabitation of body cells by the virus. The virus stays more or less inactive much of the time, save during outbreaks. Shingles is much the same sort of thing, by a related virus (which causes chicken pox on first infection), but which is more or less inactive most of the time. Since the virus is within your own cells, the immune system has some trouble getting to it or even identifying its presence. And the same is true for medications. They are even less able to distinguish 'bad herpes stuff' from not bad 'own stuff'. In fact, thus far there are only two approaches to viral medications. The first exploits biochemical differences in what viruses do inside cells from what cells normally do. For instance, HIV uses some enzymes that human cells don't have, and drugs which interfere with the operation of those enzymes can blunt the operations of the virus. None of these actually remove the virus from its hiding place inside the cell. The second approach interferes with the attachement of a virus to a cell it's about to hijack. No attachment, no infected cell, no virus multiplication. There are one or two HIV drugs which attempt to do just this. In the case of herpes, since the virus is (by and large) already inside cells, this approach would be less than fully effective. Migh prevent more cells from being infected, but ... In both cases, it is very difficult to identify the internal enzymes or the cellular membrane attachement points. And having identified one of them, it's also quite difficult to find a drug which will do just the planned interference and nothing else. ======= As for diet, there is nothing which will actually prevent outbreaks nor get rid of the virus. Nor is there much reason to believe that such a thing could be. Nutrition is assorted chemicals which are disassembled during digestion and then absorbed. Starch is taken apart into tis glucose components, all protein is disassembled into its amino acid components, and fats are reduced to triglycerides and then further reprocessed in the liver and fat cells. There are few nutrients which are absorbed whole without change. Grape sugar is glucose and is absorbed as such, vitamins (at least those from the diet) are absorbed whole, and minerals (iron, magnesium, zinc, ...) are absorbed in simple inorganic forms, for the most part. Iron sulphate for instance, though this is a poor example as iron is not well absorbed at all except as organically bound iron (eg, hemoglobin from meat). None of these absorbed nutrients has much direct effect on cellular function, as for instance allowing a cell to throw out a herpes virus when it would not be able to do so in the absence of that nutrient. Instead they are used for multiple purposes both cellular and viral (when the virus activates). But there are at least two complications in this view. It may be that, say, normally adequate amounts of some nutrient (say, vitamin C) are inadequate to cope with some of the tissue damage that virus activity causes. Inflammation, for instance. In which case, increased amounts of <whatever> might alleviate herpes outbreak symptoms more quicl=ky than otherwise. Thus far, there are many claims that this or that will do just this. Since such things are hard to study (herpes outbreaks are currently impossible to predict and so to study) there is little hard evidence (from properly done scientific studies) that this or that makes much difference. When the placebo effect (quite real, if not predictable for any particular individual) is taken into account, there are probably good reasons for people to claim that <whatever> helped their herpes ourbreak. It's a muddle as statistical evaluations of such things usually are. The second possibility for food helping with herpes is quite different. Some years ago, something called krebiozen was promoted as a cancer cure. It was made from peach or apricot pits which contain small amounts of cyanide. This is certainly not a nutrient (being very poisonous, fatally so, in very small quantities), but it is in food (in this case the normally uneaten pits of peaches and apricots). Quite a number of foods contain substances which aren't nutrients at all. Fiber (soluble or insoluble) is essentially inert and passed on through without being obsorbed nor much changed chemically. Many foods have some (or a lot) of fiber. Rhubarb (can't eat certain parts of the plant due to poisonous oxalic acid content), cassava root (which must be processed before becoming edible), miseltoe (some parts of this attractive plant are poisonous), assorted house plants which contain poisons in various parts of the plant (radio station WBZ in Boston used to offer a pamphlet which listed quite a few of these from a "don't let your pets or kids kill themselves by nibbling on stuff they shouldn't" perspective), ... There may be a food somewhere which contains some non-nutrient substance (not poisonous to us) which eases the experience of herpes outbreaks and which survives the trip through the digestive tract. As with foods which might have rich sources of some nutrient more than ordinarily needed during an outbreak, there is very little (approaching none) evidence that this or that makes a difference. And again, there is anecdotal report of foods which may be helping during herpes outbreaks by this mechanism, but again, it's not known for sure that's what's actually happening. So the short answer to your question is no, there's is nothing known, either diet or medication, which can get rid of herpes. And, a slightly longer answer, there is nothing really known, either diet or medication, which can substantially reduce the severity of an outbreak. There are a few drugs currently available, can, if taken in the right quantities at the right times, somewhat reduce the severity of an outbreak. At least the studies suggest this sufficiently that the drugs have been approved for market, but there are people for whom they make no difference at all. Why not, and why not more reduction in severity, is not clear. Research continues, because a drug which really did reduce symptoms substantially would be a real money maker. there is no cure but ways to help keep them under control |
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